Peter Bue and Jack had been friends for decades. So, whenPeter died of a heart attack at the age of 54, Jack took a bold stepto help console Peter’s widow, Laura: he hired me to do a mediumsession for her. Laura Kroeten-Bue had never met a medium. She wasn’t evensure what to expect from afterlife communications. Yet, if youasked her today, I’m certain she’d tell you that medium appointmentfrom her husband’s friend was one of the best gifts she’s everreceived. She had come to the session not to say the good-bye herhusband’s sudden heart attack had precluded, but “Hello, again,Peter. We’re now able to be back in touch.” Peter, a very dynamic spirit, came through with incrediblestrength and clarity during that first appointment, and he’s beencommunicating with Laura every month since! Unlike most of myclients, who have a session with me once or twice a year, Laurawanted appointments at least twice a month. Because I keep myfees low, she can afford them. Ordinarily, I would have warnedLaura against having medium sessions so often, but she was aboutto receive her doctorate in psychology, so I figured she knew aboutthe dangers of displacement (the unconscious transference of affectionfrom one person to another). It’s rare, but mediums do needto be aware that serving as the mouthpiece of a deceased individualcan lead to a client coming to think of that medium as beingthat dearly departed person. That’s why it’s important to teachrepeat clients some ways in which to do medium work on theirown. I, therefore, began fairly early on to tell Laura how to developher soul senses, so she could receive and send messages to Peterdirectly.

Left, Logical, Linear The first challenge with this was that Laura, a nurse and psychologist,was predominantly left-brained. People who functionalmost exclusively in their left brains during their workday oftenhave more difficulty engaging in afterlife communications thanmore creative, right-brained types. None of us choose to be primarily left- or right-brained.Rather, we’re born with a tendency to be stronger in one or theother of our brain’s hemispheres. The findings of evolutionary sciencepoint to the likelihood that humankind was originally rightbrained,and we developed left brains as the need for using toolsand language arose. This change marked the shift from our Garden-of-Eden fruit-gatherer stage to sweat-of-our-brows huntingwith handmade weapons, in order to scrape out steady livelihoodsfor ourselves. Not surprisingly, our left brains have been guidingus through our workdays ever since. The left brain enables us toengage in sequential and linear thinking, so we can follow directionsand carry out tasks in the most logical, efficient manner.

Determining Your Dominance Consider, for instance, how you give others directions to alocation. If you say things like, “Drive west three miles and turnnorth on Maple Street,” you are probably a mainly left-brainedperson. If, on the other hand, you phrase directions like this,“Drive that way [pointing], until you reach the intersection withthe McDonald’s. Then take a right and keep going till you passthe big shopping center on your left.”—you’re primarily a rightbrainedperson. The right-brained are into visual cues, such as landmarks,rather than the more mathematical process of keeping track ofmiles traveled on an odometer. Here’s a quiz to take to help you determine which side of yourbrain is dominant for you. Simply circle the answer that appliesmost to you after each statement.1. I have to write appointment times and tasks down on a calendarin order to remember them.True False2. I’m almost always very aware of what time it is.True False3. Before beginning a project or assignment at work, I need toknow why I’m doing it or what the ultimate goal is with it.True False4. I’m an out-of-sight-out-of-mind person, needing visualprompts or cues to remind me what needs to get done andin what order.True False5. I get bored with doing tasks in order of priority. I prefer todo what feels most interesting to me at any given time.True False6. When someone asks me to recount an occurrence, I use myhands and image-filled description, rather than just words,to do so.True False7. In school, I easily got good grades in math.True False8. I tend to be analytical in my thinking.True False9. I often override my emotions, in order to appear controlledand consistent.True False10. I’m a realist, rarely indulging in wishful thinking.True False11. I try to do everything the right way.True False12. I think it’s possible to manifest a joyful life for myself.True False13. When I lose one of my belongings, I’m usually able to findit by mentally picturing where I last saw it.True False14. I read the instructions before trying to assemble an applianceor piece of equipment.True False15. I tend to run late in getting to work, appointments, or socialgatherings.True False16. I’m often intuitive, knowing when something significant isabout to happen.True False17. Without using any psychic abilities, I would be good at solvingcrimes.True False18. I am very creative. I write poetry, fiction, music, or I paint,draw, sculpt or make art objects.True False19. I usually write a list of the pluses and minuses, before makingimportant decisions.True False20. I know undisclosed facts about people I’ve just met.True False Please check out your results on this quiz by turning to theend of this chapter. If your answers indicate that you’re moreleft-brained than right, I highly recommend you try some of theexercises in this chapter in order to develop your soul-sensingabilities. The lists below will help you better understand the functionsof your left and right brains.Left Brain Right BrainLogic IntuitionVerbal skills Nonverbal skills (using imagery, not just words)Conscious processing Subconscious processingLiteral interpretations Symbolic interpretationsRealistic thinking Fantasizing (daydreaming & night dreaming)Control, consistency Emotions, reactionsMathematical, scientific tasks Artistic, musical, dramatic skillsLinear, sequential thinking/tasks Wholistic thinking (Filling gaps with intuition)Temporal awareness Lack of temporal awareness(Cannot sense time)Judgment, evaluation Nonjudgmental, uncritical thinking

As you can imagine, those in the composing arts spend manyof their waking hours in their right brains. Other occupations tendto require mainly left-brain skills. You may have noticed in Chapter1 that I mentioned I’m the author of fifteen novels issued byNew York publishing houses. That might have seemed just incidental,when, in fact, it’s the main reason I was able to become amedium. Had I been a full-time bookkeeper when I met TjodyJacobsen, her mother would not have found me nearly as receptiveto her soul’s messages. Why? Because bookkeeping, along withmost other kinds of work we do in our day-to-day lives, is a leftbrainactivity. Right-brained people tend to be creative and intuitive, usuallychoosing to listen to gut feelings, rather than logic. When youdo something creative, you switch over to your right brain andthat’s the lobe you need to strengthen in order to develop yoursoul senses.

Play At It It surprises most people to learn that they don’t really have towork to develop their soul senses, they have to play in the creativeways children do. One of my first questions to those who wish tocommunicate with deceased loved ones is, “What do you do that’screative?” They usually look taken aback and answer, “Nothing.” AndI’ll say, “Really? You don’t scrapbook, sew, bead, decorate cakes, orwrite in a journal? Don’t you have any hobbies that are creative?”Most people can say yes to this, if they really think about it. Tothose who cannot, though, I reply, “Well, start creating right away!Just dedicate an hour or two a week to it, if that’s all the time youcan spare. You’ll have fun. It will help you relax. And you’ll bedeveloping your soul senses, all at the same time.”

The Composing Arts Go buy a candle-making kit and add your own originaltouches to your wax creations. Start finger painting. Decorate acake or a sweatshirt. Come up with something completely newin any area of inventiveness which catches your fancy. What youcreate doesn’t have to be perfect or even good. It’s the sheer act ofmaking it that matters most in this case. Have fun, but be sure it’s a creative endeavor, not a performingone. By that I mean you need to engage in the composing arts:writing music, fiction, or poetry, designing pottery, jewelry, etc.I’m not talking about the performing arts, such as singing, dancing,acting, or reciting someone else’s poetry. You actually have tocreate something. For instance, come up with the steps and movesfor an all-new dance routine, rather than performing one thatsomebody else choreographed. Unfortunately, Peter was the only artist in the Bue marriage.Although I suggested it, Laura didn’t seem interested in undertakingcreative activities. When I met her, she had a doctorate thesisto write and lots of paperwork to deal with, due to her husband’ssudden death. This meant I had to think of another way for her toaccess her right brain during her waking hours.Journaling Laura had started out tape-recording our medium sessions,but she gradually began recording the details of them in a handwrittenjournal. This gave me the opportunity to suggest that sheadd to this diary by writing messages to Peter in it. Amazingly,even though I didn’t know what questions she was writing in herjournal, we discovered that Peter’s responses to them would comethrough me during my medium sessions with Laura. Peter wasobviously receiving his wife’s written communications, but theultimate goal was to get Laura to a point where she could not onlysend messages to him, but receive them as well. This called for afew very specific steps:

1. Laura’s journaling would have to be contained in a small, portablenotebook, which she could carry in her purse or coatpocket. She would need to take it almost everywhere shewent. Nine years of full-time novel writing has taught methat creativity, divine intervention, and messages from theOther Side tend to strike when we’re keeping our critical leftbrains busy with workaday activities. So, Laura had to be preparedto write down fleeting impressions, words, and imagesfrom Peter, while she was riding the bus to her nursing job,taking a lunch or coffee break, or even buying groceries.The spirits of our passed loved ones are attracted by the physicalelements of life: water, air/wind, earth, and fire. Thus, thesesouls are notorious for sending messages to us while we’re showering,driving a car, gardening, or sitting with family or friends neara glowing hearth. In short, their messages often come when we’releast able to write them down. So, keeping your portable journalclose at hand is the only way to assure you won’t forget somethingimportant.2. Laura would have to begin to determine which words andimages were actually from Peter and which were simply theproducts of her own memories, daydreaming, or imagination.While it is very common for a dead loved one to reminiscewith the living about happy times they shared with uson Earth, bona fide messages from the Other Side tend tohave an out-of-the-blue quality that will indicate they camefrom a source outside of your own mind. It’s not unusual, forinstance, to have a memory of a fun family outing flood yourbrain when you’re looking at a photo album of that time inyour life. However, when such a memory flashes into yourhead while you’re doing something entirely unrelated, it’s themark of spirit communication. If you find yourself saying,“Wow! I haven’t thought about that in years,” and there’s noexternal reason why you would now, someone is definitelypopping in on you from the Other Side. Afterlife messages also tend to be recurrent. Just as we, theliving, will repeat something we’ve uttered, if we believe the personwe said it to did not hear or comprehend it, so the deceased oftenrepeat a word or image, if it’s important to get it across to a livingloved one.3. Laura would have to realize that even fleeting images can forminto messages. So, she would have to put pen to paper, evenif it was only a single word, a doodle, or a seemingly senselessphrase that popped into her head. Given some time to reflectupon it, even a fragment of a message might come to makesense to her.

Personal Meanings A great example of this occurred many years ago, when I wasfirst testing my medium abilities on family and friends. My longtimeconfidante, Carole Nelson Douglas, a well-known mysterynovelist, agreed to let me try my hand at doing an afterlife-communicationsession between her and a recently deceased associateof hers. This was a woman I had never met and about whom Iknew nothing. As I began the reading, I saw an image of a purple gown.I told Carole this, but it just didn’t ring a bell for her. As faras Carole could recall, neither she nor her dead friend had everowned a purple gown or even worn one. Nevertheless, this imageremained in my mind the whole time I was bringing through verifiableinformation to Carole from her friend. Finally, a voice insideSoul Sensing: How to Communicate with Your Dead Loved Onesme said, “Try harder, Janice. What does a purple gown mean toyou personally?” I searched my mind for an answer. Purple symbolized royaltyto me. A gown is, of course, more formal than a dress and usuallyfloor-length. So, who wore a purple gown? My thoughts racedback to my first memories of such a garment. When I was aboutfour years old, my adoptive mother had shown me a magazinephoto of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation attire. While her gownwas white, the royal robe she donned just after the ceremony wasmade of rich purple velvet. Then, thank Heavens, my right brainfinally made the symbolic leap for me. “Was your deceased friend named Elizabeth?” I askedCarole. “Yes,” she exclaimed. “Never Liz or Beth or any shortening ofthat name. Always ‘Elizabeth.’ She was a formal person and veryparticular about what others called her.” I can sometimes have trouble bringing through names fromthe Other Side. I usually get the first initial of a name right, butCarole’s friend Elizabeth was obviously determined to have mebring through her name intact. All of this to say that every piece ofinformation you receive may be significant, no matter how vagueor irrelevant it may seem at first. Getting back to Laura Bue, however: she was on board withthe three specifics of journaling. She kept her notebook with heras much as possible. She was demonstrating a good sense of whatwere legitimate messages from Peter versus her own thoughts andreflections. She also worked regularly with me to sort out theimages which both she and I received when communicating withhim. Nevertheless, she was still too tentative and nonspecific ingathering and interpreting soul-sensing information. She would,for example, mention receiving a vision of a particular color fromPeter, but then she couldn’t bring through anything more to helpfit it into some kind of context. She would talk about experiencinga certain sensation from him, such as shortness of breath—but shewas unable to tell me if this should be attributed to a past event,like Peter’s heart attack, or some future happening he was trying toforetell. She didn’t seem able to fill in the gaps in the informationPeter was giving her with either her intuition or with left-brainedlogic. In short, she still was not spending enough of her wakinghours in her right brain.A Different Kind of MeditationI suggested she start meditating on a regular basis. Becausethis would only require a few minutes per day, she agreed to tryit. Be advised, however, that the meditation I recommend for promotingmedium communications is different from the garden-varietytype most people do for the purposes of relaxation. Any kind of meditation can be difficult, at first, because itinvolves stilling your body and quieting your mind. Sounds a littlelike being asleep, right? You have to do it while you’re awake, however,and that’s what makes it tricky. All types of meditation start with these three steps:1. Getting quiet2. Getting comfortable3. Getting focusedGetting quiet means not only quieting your mind, but shuttingdown the noise around you. Turn off your TV, radio, and anyother sounds in your environment. Obviously, it’s best to meditatewhen you’re alone or can, at least, be left alone. If you’ve got noisyfamily members or neighbors, try using headphones or ear-budswhen meditating. You might choose a white-noise tape to listen toin order to block out the sounds around you. Listening to recordingsof drumming or repetitive, percussive music is an even betterchoice for medium meditation. In this way, you give a heartbeatback to your deceased loved one. This sort of rhythm can summonthe passed party you seek in much the same way that fire, wind,water, and soil do. Do not choose music with lyrics, however. Deciphering words isa left-brain skill, and the goal of medium meditation is to get intoyour right brain and stay there for several minutes.A Vacation for Your Mind Unless we stop them, our brains automatically race to all ofthe left-brain things we have to do in the upcoming day: our 9-to-5jobs, errands, cooking, cleaning, child care, pet care—you knowthe list. In fact, most of us wake up with it marching through ourheads every morning. That’s why meditation is so important. Itallows us to steal a few minutes away from all of our day-to-daydemands. It’s a vacation for the mind, and I hope you’ll come toview it not as just another must-do, but as something you enjoy—your own private trip to the peace and wisdom of the Other Side. It’s crucial to be physically comfortable while you’re meditating.Choose a cushy piece of furniture to sit on; but don’t meditatelying down. A reclining position can too easily lead to fallingasleep, which may cause you to be late for all of your daily obligations.For this reason, I also recommend setting a timer to let youknow when your designated meditation time has ended. As for getting focused, begin by paying attention to yourbreathing. Breathe in slowly to the count of four. Then exhalegradually to the count of four. After doing this a couple times,press a finger to the outer side of your left nostril to close it. Theninhale and exhale through your right nostril only. This will helpstimulate your right brain.

I Scry Your next object of focus will be a scrying bowl. This is aclean earthenware or baked-clay bowl filled halfway to the rimwith fresh water. Set it on a table in front of you. Or, if you prefer,sit on the floor and place the bowl between your legs, so you cancomfortably stare down into it. This type of meditation is meant to cultivate your clairvoyantabilities. It helps you gather images from the Other Side whichyou can then piece into messages. This method has been used bymediums since ancient times, with its origins in Greece. The useof the life-giving elements of water and earth (in the form of yourearthen bowl) help amplify your deceased loved one’s ability tosend you images. Make a mental note of anything that appears toyou in the bowl. Then jot it down when your session is over. It’sbest not to interrupt your meditative state in order to write aboutany images you see, because the physical act of writing is a leftbrainskill. For this reason, you may want to describe any imagesyou see into a tape recorder. A similar medium method is the psychomanteum or “mirrorgazing.” Also known as an apparition booth, this is done in a smalldarkened room or closet. Letting little or no light into the room, sitin a comfortable chair before a large, free-standing or wall mirrorand gaze into it for several minutes. In most cases, the gazer beginsto see an image or images in the mirror. Admittedly, this method is too spooky for me. I don’t likestaring at anything in the dark, unless I’m stargazing or visiting aplanetarium. Nevertheless, Dr. Raymond Moody, author of LifeAfter Life, used the psychomanteum in his research followinghundreds of subjects seeking reunions with deceased loved ones,and he concluded that it was useful in healing grief. Part of thesuccess of the psychomanteum method is, undoubtedly, the sensorydeprivation it imposes. If total darkness would unnerve youin such an endeavor, however, you might want to try adding theflickering light of a single candle to it. Archaeologists have concludedthat, when the ancient Greeks used this method, it wasdone in a cave or darkened maze wherein there were probably littorches or oil lamps, so firelight should not compromise its effectiveness.

Automatic WritingOnce Laura was meditating on a regular basis, she couldexpand her journal entries about Peter to include some automaticwriting. This is a technique in which you meditate for a few minutes,then you write down anything that pops into your mind.Don’t worry about forming whole sentences or whether what you’rewriting makes sense. The right brain is a nonjudgmental lobe, sodon’t criticize what you write. Don’t pay any attention to the partof your left brain that says things like “That’s the wrong word” or“That’s not how that’s spelled.” This is not the time to edit, butjust to write. To help assure you’re not being critical of your automatic writing,try doing it with your eyes shut. The more you do this, themore you’ll begin to sense that the deceased loved one you seek ischanneling through you and making your hand write the wordsand messages he or she wishes to convey.Automatic DrawingWhen I bring through messages from Peter to Laura, heoften prefers to converse with me via automatic drawing. Whatmore perfect means of communicating for a professional artistand painter like Peter? The only problem with it is that I can’tdraw my way out of a paper bag! And Laura says she doesn’t drawwell enough to even attempt it. Then again, she has so many ofPeter’s masterful paintings around her that it’s probably impossiblefor her to feel equal to the task of drawing anything. Nevertheless,to the extent to which my pathetic doodling captures whatPeter means to draw, it has proven to be a viable means of mediumshipfor me. I have facilitated afterlife communications for thousands ofspirits and their living loved ones through the years, so it’s interestingto me that Peter is the only soul who has moved me todo automatic drawing. Of course, being primarily clairaudient, Igather most of his messages with my inner ear. Yet he still managesto convey a lot of information by compelling me to draw.When Laura and I do our sessions, my note pad becomes splashedwith childlike depictions of flowers, people, animals, householdobjects, and just about anything else Peter wishes to discuss withhis widow. However simplistic, my automatic drawings are goodenough for me to describe them to Laura during our phone sessionsand for her, in turn, to deduce what Peter means by them.They are usually references to what has most recently happened inLaura’s life or those of their two grown daughters. Peter will have me draw a certain kind of food, for instance,and then I’ll discover from Laura that she has eaten it within thepast day or so. He may move me to sketch a garment or accessory,whereupon Laura will confirm that she has recently purchasedor worn something matching my picture. These are the ways inwhich Peter assures his wife and daughters that he is still a partof their day-to-day lives and that he continues to share in theirearthly experiences.What You See Is What They MeanMost mediums would agree that you should start by takingany image you receive literally. That is to say that, if Peter has medraw a couple of peaches, he probably means actual pieces of thefruit we all know as peaches. Nevertheless, this is where you, theclient, have the absolute advantage over a medium who is tryingto help you with afterlife communications. When I told Laurathat I had received such an image during one of our sessions, shecorrected me and said, “No. Peter doesn’t mean real peaches. Hemeans our daughters’ childhood friend ‘Peaches,’ who just gotback into town the other day and came to visit us. His real nameisn’t ‘Peaches,’ of course. That’s just a nickname the girls gave him.His name is actually James.” It’s just this sort of double or hidden meaning that makes itnecessary for professional mediums to remember to convey preciselythe images they are shown by the deceased and not indulgethe urge to add too much self-interpretation to them. Had I,instead, said to Laura, “You’ve been eating peaches lately,” ratherthan “Peter’s showing me peaches. What does that mean?”—shemight not have picked up on Peter’s reference to his having witnessedhis daughters’ reunion with their longtime friend. Two other stunning examples of this have occurred recentlyduring my afterlife-communication sessions with Laura and Peter.The first was that Peter had me draw the kind of pronged-branchesone might see serving as “arms” on a snowman. I told Laura aboutthis image, content to think it referred to her recently having seena snowman. She informed me, however, that Peter was, in fact,acknowledging his youngest daughter’s nickname for him: “Skeletorhands.” Then, just a moment later, Peter showed me normal humanhands squeezing a tomato until it burst into a runny red mess.According to Laura, this had nothing to do with someone actuallysquishing a tomato. Rather, it was Peter’s follow up to thelast image he’d brought through. Laura instantly knew what thisdescription meant: Peter’s nickname for his youngest daughter, inturn, was “Catsup Girl,” because of her tendency to put catsup onalmost everything she eats.

Past Or Present? In addition to all Peter says about Laura’s present life, he oftentalks about their experiences together when he was still physicallyalive. Like all of us, he refers to current and past events when hespeaks. Unfortunately, time telling is the hardest part of mediumship.The right brain doesn’t gauge time well. So, again, a client likeLaura has the decided advantage over her professional medium. Agreat example of this occurred just a few months ago, when I wasdoing a session with Laura. “Peter is showing me a picture of youroldest daughter on a TV Guide. What does this mean? Did shemake it onto a reality show or something?” Laura laughed. “No. Years ago, when she was nine or ten,Peter painted a mockup of a TV Guide cover. Then he added herface to it. You know. To give her a thrill, like ‘you’re the star of theweek, sweetheart.’” Once Laura explained this to me, it made total sense. Peter’spaintings often captured this type of pop culture. Creating incrediblyprecise paintings of modern celebrities was his specialty. WithoutLaura’s participation in this afterlife communication, however,I would not have realized he was referring to an event which happenedover a decade earlier.Image DownloadsIn addition to his commentary on his family’s past and present,Peter also indicates that he can tune into his wife’s thoughts.I’ll often tell Laura about an image I’m receiving from Peter onlyto hear her say, “I was just thinking about that today!” It’s not typical for spirits to be able to read the thoughts of the living, butPeter and Laura were married for over two decades and they arestill soul mates. All this to say that, once you begin receiving telepathicmessages from your deceased loved one, it becomes possiblefor you to graduate beyond the medium’s language of images andsymbols to having dialogs with him or her in your head. This happened to me recently, when I received word of thedeath of an old family friend. Suddenly, my mind was filled withan amazingly vivid stream of all of the unique features of herhouse on Lake Minnetonka. I even saw her two long-dead GermanShepherds, whom she assures me have been reunited with her inHeaven. These forty-year-old images zipped through my mind insuch an exhilarating rush that I found myself awestruck. I thoughtI had forgotten about them, but our old friend Barbara broughtthem back to the fore of my brain as if I were just seeing them forthe first time. I whispered my profound thanks that Heaven hadbrought such a joyful, indomitable role model into my life when Iwas a young girl. Barbara, like Peter, was a person who lived life to the fullestuntil the day she died and who always overcame boredom anddrudgery with creativity and resolution. Both Barbara and Peterseem determined to make certain that we, the living, can one daymake the transition to Heaven with a sense of anticipation ratherthan fear—knowing that death is only another step in the evolutionof our souls. So, it’s with their kind assurances that I promiseyou, if you practice the form of meditation I’ve described in thischapter, you, too, will eventually experience this wonderful type ofafterlife telepathic communication with a loved one.

Peter’s Predictions Because the dead are not functioning in the realm of time, theycan also give us messages about the future. While most mediumsessions with the deceased are not intended to generate propheticinformation, Laura and I started to notice that Peter would sometimessend images during a session that did not pertain to thepresent or the past. Laura would then check with her daughtersto determine whether the information related to either of them.When both claimed it did not, Laura and I would have to write itoff as what we mediums call a “miss.” This is an incorrect or irrelevantmessage that may have been caused by a variety of problemson the receiving end Misses are most often the result of a medium misinterpreting or over interpreting a message or image. They can also be caused by what I refer to as “channel drift,” as with radio transmissions. If two or more spirits are speaking at once or, if thespirit “frequency” you’re on drifts into another afterlife-communicationchannel, messages naturally become confused or garbled.Because this didn’t happen very often with Peter and me, Lauraseemed content to ignore it. That is until such seemingly impertinentmessages turned out to be predictions of future events!In one instance, Peter told me that one of Laura’s close relativeswas about to marry. However, both Laura and her daughtersclaimed to know nothing of any wedding plans in the pipe. Then,weeks later, Laura informed me that one of her family membershad indeed eloped and kept it a secret from her immediate familyfor months. Once Laura and I realized Peter was able and willing toimpart some future events to us, we noticed that he became moreexact about them. “When you go to Europe, you will meet someonefamous,” he had me tell Laura, before she went on vacationabroad. Peter was a painter of some note. His art is part of the MinnesotaHistorical Society’s collection and his work has recentlywon the interest of the Weisman Museum. So, I thought it likelythat Peter had some well-known contacts in the art world. Justfor clarification, therefore, I asked Laura if she or her daughtersknew of any such contacts in Europe. Laura assured me they didnot. Yet, when she returned from their trip to France and Italya few weeks later, she phoned me and excitedly announced that,through a series of unexpected events, she and her daughters hadbeen allowed to meet Pope Benedict XVI! This serendipitous encounter had come about due to a casualconversation Laura had with a British acquaintance, named Peter,just outside the Coliseum. He happened to have passes to a prayerservice at the Vatican. He offered them to Laura, and, being adevout Catholic, she gladly accepted them. This resulted in Lauraand her daughters coming within just a few feet of the Pope andbeing personally blessed by him during the service. This future-events messaging continued with Peter and eventuallyled to him foretelling world happenings. That, however, is asubject that has proven so momentous that it really deserves a bookall its own. Suffice it to say that, as of this writing, Peter has made33 correct predictions of world events. In any case, I’m very happy to report that Laura has progressedin her afterlife communications with Peter to a point wherehe not only witnesses her earthly life, but sometimes temporarilytransports her spirit to his current plane of existence in Heaven.This has been the result of Laura’s persistence in developing hertwo strongest soul senses: clairvoyance and clairsentience. Monitoringher meditation sessions and her night dreams has provenkey for her in all of this. As with most endeavors, you’ll find that fine-tuning the afterlife-communication process requires experimentation and practice.In time, you, too, will discover the soul-sensing methods thatwork best for you.